EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 485 



Cost: 



Labor, 1 hour per day @ 25c 



Skim milk, 5 gallons per day @ 4c 



Oats • • • 



Corn 



Middlings 



Bran 



Grain 



Registration certificates 



$ 408 90 



Interest on investment $30 00 



Total cost 438 96 



Receipts: 



Sold 7 pigs 



Credit on feed remaining 



Increased valuation 



Manure, 18 tons @ $1.26 



Loss $ 73 73 



The loss occurring in the swine department is due to the death of four 

 head. They would have nddod nbout i^loO.OO to the receipts had they 

 lived. Their death is thought to have been caused by being too closely 

 confined on a cement floor in winter. Rheumatic symptoms developed 

 in their legs and they were helpless. The writer believes that if the 

 above hogs had lived the receipts and expenses would have been about 

 the same. 



A charge of only ii^30.00 interest was allowed on the investment be- 

 cause of onh^ a small part of the building being used by the hogs. 



Three boar pigs and two young sows were .sent out from the Station 

 for breeding purposes. 



Because of the climatic conditions at the Chatham Station, which 

 being unfavorable to the growing of corn, and because of the very high 

 cost of feed, plus the freight charges, and labor and retail man's profit 

 there has not been much stress used in pushing and developing of the 

 swine industry. No doubt that much of this unfavorable condition can 

 be eliminated, when the countr}' becomes more settled and when the 

 farmers raise more barley as a substitute for corn feed, and when ad- 

 vantage is taken of suitably fenced pastures during the summer season. 



rOULTRY. 



A little over one year ago all of the poultry on the place was sold 

 and replaced by new strains of Barred Rocks and White Leghorns. 

 The results obtained from the Barred Rocks are very good as the following 

 table will illustrate. 



